OT hey you hot rod dudes, carb and gasket ??)

[greg g]

working on my Studebaker project and have a question concerning the carb and its mounting. I have to use a 1 inch spacer plate between my carb (carter AFB) and the stock manifold. This is necessary to allow room for the cable and linkage that comunicates with the transmission. The plate came with an open gasket that goes betweent he bottom of the plate and the manifold. My question regards the carb to spacer gasket. Should I use the carb based one which follows the shape of the carb and has material between the butterflies, or another open one? And if the open one is used will it have any effect on the workings of the internal vacuum signals the carb needs to recieve? If pictures would help let me know? But I figure someof you fellows have experience with this type of application. My concern is that the gasket material may start fleping around in the in the spacer area.

[Guest 57plymouth]

I always use an open gasket. I had a bad experience with a four hole gasket hanging the butterflies open once. It isn't nice to have a carb jam open when you want it closed. The open single hole gasket will work just fine in your application.

[martybose]

The one piece of information missing is what the spacer itself looks like. If it is a 1" thick spacer with 4 individual holes for the throttle bores, I would use the carb 4 hole gasket. If it is just a single squarish open hole, I would use the open gasket, as there isn't anything for the 4 hole gasket to seal against anyway.

Marty